Evan Shapiro News

The University of Georgia's George Foster Peabody Awards and Pivot have agreed to a multi-year strategic alliance beginning this year and spanning through 2016

The second annual search to find the best college DJ at American universities and colleges is now underway at www.CampusDJ.com. The National Finale event will be held in Los Angeles this June at the historic Avalon Hollywood, where the winner will be crowned as the best college DJ in the country, with major prizing to be announced shortly from Campus DJ, Monster Energy, GRAMMY U, Chegg, Dirty Dutch, and Chipotle.

During a presentation today for television critics, Pivot (Pivot.tv), Participant Media's TV network targeting Millennials (18-34), announced that it has greenlit production of two original unscripted series, 'TerraCycle,' premiering in Q3 2014 and 'Welcome to Fairfax' for Q4 2014. The announcement was made today by Evan Shapiro, President, Pivot and Belisa Balaban, Senior Vice President, Alternative Programming.

During a presentation today for television critics, Pivot (Pivot.tv), Participant Media's TV network targeting Millennials (18-34), announced that it has expanded its relationship with Meghan McCain. Beginning this Spring, the New York Times best selling author, TV producer, commentator and outspoken daughter of Senator John McCain will join the network's late night topical show 'Take Part Live' as co-host, alongside Jacob Soboroff. The announcement was made by Evan Shapiro, President, Pivot.

Just days prior to the debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'HITRECORD ON TV,' Pivot (Pivot.tv), Participant Media's TV network targeting passionate Millennials (18-34), has ordered an eight episode sophomore season of the collaborative original series. The announcement was made today by Evan Shapiro, President of Pivot, at the bi-annual gathering of television critics in Pasadena.

Pivot, Participant Media's TV network targeting Millennials (18-34), today announced it has acquired all episodes of scripted series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (20th Century Fox) and Veronica Mars (Warner Bros.).

Pivot, Participant Media's TV network targeting Millennials (18-34), today announced it has acquired all episodes of scripted series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (20th Century Fox) and Veronica Mars (Warner Bros.).

Just days prior to the August 1st network launch and the debut of its first scripted series, 'Please Like Me,' Pivot (Pivot.tv), the new TV network from Participant Media targeting Millennials (18-34), has ordered a sophomore season with 10 original half-hours. Season 2 of the series is being co-produced by Pivot and Pigeon Fancier Productions/John & Josh International, in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's upstart digital channel ABC2, and will shoot in Australia. The announcement was made today by Evan Shapiro, President of Pivot.

Among the network's first six greenlit series is 'HitRECord on TV!,' a re-imagination of the variety show from director/creator/star Joseph Gordon-Levitt and executive producer Brian Graden.

TALES OF THE NIGHT, a stunning new feature film by French filmmaker Michel Ocelot ("Kiriko and the Sorceress;" "Azur & Asmar"), will now be available to audiences of all ages at home. Through an agreement with the film's theatrical distributor, GKIDS, Cinedigm Entertainment Group (CEG) will release the English-language version of TALES OF THE NIGHT on January 29 on DVD/Blu-ray, preceded by an early cable VOD and digital release on January 8.

Participant Media, the leading provider of entertainment that inspires and accelerates change and known for such award-winning films as An Inconvenient Truth, Food, Inc., The Help, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and the upcoming Promised Land, will further expand its growing industry footprint with the Summer 2013 launch of a cable network targeting the millennial generation. The announcement was made today by Participant Chairman and Founder Jeff Skoll and Chief Executive Officer Jim Berk.

IFC announced at its first ever Upfront the slate of guest stars that will be sitting down to chat with host Scott Aukerman (co-creator/director/producer, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis; writer/performer, Mr. Show) on his new comedy series, Comedy Bang! Bang!, which riffs on the well-known format of the late night talk show.

IFC announced today at its first ever Upfront the slate of guest stars that will be sitting down to chat with host Scott Aukerman (co-creator/director/producer, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis; writer/performer, Mr. Show) on his new comedy series, COMEDY BANG! BANG!, which cleverly riffs on the well-known format of the late night talk show.

At the network's first-ever Upfront event, IFC unveiled its 2012/2013 original programming line-up which includes the return for a third season of its breakout hit series, PORTLANDIA and a second season of WHISKER WARS.

IFC announced today at its first ever Upfront the slate of guest stars that will be sitting down to chat with host Scott Aukerman (co-creator/director/producer, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis; writer/performer, Mr. Show) on his new comedy series, Comedy Bang! Bang!, which riffs on the well-known format of the late night talk show.

IFC's hit comedy series, PORTLANDIA attracted a strong week two audience on Friday, January 13, 10-10:30 pm, et/pt, building on the successful performance of the series' second season debut on Friday, January 6.

IFC's second season debut of the network's hit comedy series, Portlandia, attracted strong audiences on Friday, January 6 (10-10:30 pm), according to Nielsen Media Live+3 Days.

IFC announced today the greenlight of two new scripted comedy series to join its 2012 original programming slate - COMEDY BANG! BANG! and BUNK (working title). IFC has ordered 10, half-hour episodes of each series to premiere back-to-back in June 2012 as a one-hour original comedy block.

IFC announced today a roster of guest stars who will be visiting the network's hit original series Portlandia when the show returns in January. Penny Marshall (Laverne and Shirley), Jack McBrayer (30 Rock), Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption), Andy Samberg (SNL), Amber Tamblyn (House) and Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids, SNL) will partake in Portlandia's satirical rendering of this Pacific Northwest community's quirkiness.